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** Philip Vinogradov – Centennial School District ** ** A listing of your goals as instructional coach ** The cornerstone of 21st century skill development is authentic collaboration around relevant and meaningful tasks to create a product or outcome that is of value to others. The creation of new knowledge through technology is becoming integral in preparing students for the careers of tomorrow. For K-12 education to keep pace with the rapid technological advances in our society, we must develop new approaches to education that leverage emerging technologies, support collaborative learning, bridge the physical/digital realms, and prepare all students for the dynamic world they are entering. To facilitate that process I plan to: · ** Empower teachers as learners ** · ** Work with early adapters across departments to develop exemplar lessons and practices that they can then share with their immediate colleagues ** · ** Involve all levels of administration in experiencing 21st century pedagogical transformation ** ** A listing of your challenges and strategies to overcome those challenges (use your collaboration with other coaches to address these challenges). **  · Time for PD is a major challenge. Continued coach staffing is an essential element for job embedded and timely support · Student and teacher access to reliable technology. Our district is moving to supporting a BYO environment and public wifi. This will also ameliorate some cost concerns. ** Assume you are successful in your efforts to help your teachers prepare students as future citizens of the world. What would your school look like? ** Our district is building a 21st Century Learning Lab that will function as a dynamic learning space for use across all curricular areas K-12. The facility will support an instructional shift from learners being information consumers or spectators to being information users and knowledge creators. It will be a fluid environment, configurable for a variety of challenge based learning experiences that are supported by technologies unavailable in regular classrooms. This will include multiple interactive smart boards for group collaboration, robust wireless internet access, and access to a planetarium dome for large scale sharing, presentation, and evaluation of student generated content. This facility will be a venue for the development of exemplar PBL lessons that can be adopted by all teachers, helping to transform our school into a learner centered culture. media type="custom" key="7501503"

Jon Love Bristol Borough School District

**__ CFF Coaching Goals __**** … ** 1. Ensure all teachers who have CFF equipped classrooms are fully comfortable with, and understand the capabilities of, the classroom equipment 2. Assist each CFF teacher with the development and delivery of a technology based lesson, project, or unit of instruction 3. Provide district teachers further inservicing on new (or unfamiliar) Web 2.0 tools and/or further extensions of previous inservice topics. 4. Collaborate with the IT department and adminstration to develop a long term (3 to 5 year) plan for acquisition and renewal of district technology resources.

**__ Challenges and Strategies… __**
 * 1) Time (and time management)! Never enough, and too many “fires” to put out. I have no strategy here, because it would first require re-programming the personalities of a few teachers (is the “Stepford Wife” software available??)
 * 2) Buy-in from all parties involved in the coaching process. This includes administration.
 * 3) Quicker access to new tools and supporting materials. For me at least, discovering new tech tools for the classroom has been a somewhat random process. While the listserv is **__very__** helpful, it is also quite random—too many sidebar conversations take place.

**__ The Long View… __** What would my school look like? I don’t know. I don’t think it matters. Kids can look busy and not learn much. Organized classrooms do not equal effective instruction. Messy classrooms do not equal effective instruction. I really don’t care what the factory looks like. I can about the what the end product looks like. So the prompt REALLY should be: “a global vision of what Pennsylvania students will be able to do if the mission is successful.” To that end, its a question of: a. __the tools avail__ __able to the teacher and students__. -- computers, internet access, media devices, tables instead of desks -- if you want 21st century learning, you need 21st century tools. b. __how the tools are used__. - - well trained teachers. That requires massive inservicing. Or a readily available, well informed and connected coach.


 * Mandy Gancarz **
 * Pennsbury School District **

** ﻿ Goals: ** 1. To sustain the work started by the CFF Coaches and continue to encourage and provide professional development opportunities that foster technology and 21st Century Skills throughout the district. 2. Network with other district tech staff developers/coaches to help unify the overall vision of 21st Century Learning and to utilize our collaborative knowledge. 3. Make time for my own continuing Professional Development so that I am familiar and comfortable with emerging technologies.

** Challenges and Strategies: ** 1. __//Time Management//__ (Too many responsibilities to do any of them efficiently) – Continue to prioritize issues and to keep my superiors apprised of my workload. 2. __//Network Security//__ – Research and learn ways to open the network to new technologies without compromising the security of the network and discuss with appropriate administrative personnel a framework for moving forward with 21st Century tools. 3. __//Budget//__ (funding for technology tools/resources) – search for open source “freeware” resources that are widely used within the K-12 community as well as seek ing any grant opportunities that may provide additional technology resources.

** School of the Future: ** In my “perfect” vision of the school of the future technology is seamless and works “behind the scenes” as a means to an end while students communicate and collaborate with peers and experts from any location to engage in relevant learning projects that encompass creative, higher order thinking skills and real-life solutions to real-world issues without limitation to the resources needed to reach the answers they seek.

Suzanne Loftus Council Rock School District [|Karen Hornberger Individual Mission.docx]